A few shots of the hundreds I took while on a whale watching adventure recently.

Humpback Whale


Whale of a Tail


Humpback Calf preforming a "cartwheel"


Nosey little critter...

Bald Eagles


I’ve been fascinated with bald eagles ever since I was a small child and saw pictures of them in books. Where and when I grew up along the Alabama Gulf Coast there were no bald eagles. At that time, their numbers had declined to the point of near extinction in North America due to the effects of DDT usage by humans. It wasn’t until I had grown children of my own that I was able to...

My daughter and I went for a walk along Steep Creek near Mendenhall Glacier here in Juneau Friday evening around 7PM and we saw a juvenile cinnamon Black Bear grazing on the lush grass along the creek bank.

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I grew up in rural south Alabama in the sixties, and except for a hitch in the Air Force in the early seventies lived most of my life there. Over the years I see a multitude of fantastic and quite a few not so fantastic things. I watched Neil Armstrong leave the first footprints in the sterile dust of the moon, and was saddened by the assassination of a president. I’ve seen wars and I’ve seen peace. I’ve seen beauty and I’ve seen beast. But until I came to SE Alaska I had never truly...